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Meeting Name: Finance Committee Agenda status: Final-revised
Meeting date/time: 4/9/2024 6:00 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Virtual
Published agenda: Agenda Agenda Published minutes: Minutes Minutes  
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Attachments: Finance - 2024-04-09 Committee Memo (with 24-0414), Finance - 2024-04-09 ADS Extension 2024Apr03 (with 24-0193_, Finance - 2024-04-09 ARPA_1 Memo to City Council (with 24-0326), Finance - 2024-04-09 ARPA_2 Update to City Council (with 24-0326), Finance - 2024-04-09 ARPA_3 YTD Expenditure Report_4.2.24 (with 24-0326), Finance - 2024-04-09 ARPA_4 YTD Expenditure_Personal Services accounts_4.2.24 (with 24-0326), Finance - 2024-04-09 Memo (with 24-0337), Finance - 2024-04-09 Memo to Finance Committee - OSE (with 24-0320), Finance - 2024-04-09 ARPA Status Report to City Council (with 24-0326)
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24-0373 11.Committee MinutesApproval of the Minutes of the Finance Committee Meeting of March 12, 2024.AcceptedPass Action details Not available
24-0404 12.Committee MinutesApproval of the Minutes of the Finance Committee Meeting of March 19, 2024.AcceptedPass Action details Not available
24-0405 13.Committee MinutesApproval of the Minutes of the Finance Committee of the Whole Meeting of March 19, 2024.AcceptedPass Action details Not available
24-0410 14.Committee MinutesApproval of the Minutes of the Finance Committee of the Whole Meeting of March 26, 2024.AcceptedPass Action details Not available
24-0202 15.CommunicationConveying budget priorities and requests for FY 2025.Recommended to be marked work completed  Action details Not available
24-0204 16.ResolutionThat the Administration fund the creation of an entire unit within the Department of Public Works tasked with battling the city's growing rodent infestation.Recommended to be placed on file  Action details Not available
24-0211 17.ResolutionThat the Administration include in the FY 2025 budget, additional funding for rodent mitigation efforts, including an Office of Rodent Prevention similar to the one proposed in Boston, with appropriate staffing.Recommended to be placed on file  Action details Not available
24-0212 18.ResolutionThat the Administration include in the FY 2025 budget, funding for a home air filtration pilot program to address air pollution along Interstate 93.Recommended to be placed on file  Action details Not available
24-0214 19.CommunicationConveying budget priorities and requests for FY 2025.Recommended to be marked work completed  Action details Not available
24-0327 110.CommunicationConveying budget priorities and requests for FY 2025.Recommended to be marked work completed  Action details Not available
24-0340 111.CommunicationConveying budget priorities and requests for FY 2025.Recommended to be marked work completed  Action details Not available
24-0342 112.CommunicationConveying budget priorities and requests for FY 2025.Recommended to be marked work completed  Action details Not available
24-0377 113.CommunicationConveying budget priorities and requests for FY 2025.Recommended to be marked work completed  Action details Not available
24-0378 114.CommunicationConveying budget priorities and requests for FY 2025.Recommended to be marked work completed  Action details Not available
24-0390 115.CommunicationConveying budget priorities and requests for FY 2025.Recommended to be marked work completed  Action details Not available
24-0081 116.Mayor's RequestRequesting approval of the discontinuance of Palmer Avenue.Recommended to be approvedPass Action details Not available
24-0280 117.Mayor's RequestRequesting approval of a time-only extension to 6/30/2025 for the contract with Classic Site Solutions, to complete approved additional design services for the Healey schoolyard, soccer field and path.Recommended to be approvedPass Action details Not available
24-0193 118.Mayor's RequestRequesting approval of a time-only extension to 4/30/2025 for the contract with ADS LLC for flow metering services.Recommended to be approvedPass Action details Not available
24-0323 119.Mayor's RequestRequesting approval to enter into a contract with outside legal counsel for the appeal of the Superior Court judgment against the Somerville Redevelopment Authority in the matter of the 90 Washington Street property at Cobble Hill.Recommended to be discharged with no recommendation  Action details Not available
24-0245 120.Mayor's RequestRequesting approval to appropriate $450,000 from the Traffic Safety Stabilization fund for engineering and streetscape reconstruction work in the Western Washington Street area.Recommended to be approvedPass Action details Not available
24-0336 121.Mayor's RequestRequesting approval to appropriate $2,300,000 from the Parks Stabilization Fund to purchase the parcel located at 508-512 Columbia Street.Recommended to be approvedPass Action details Not available
24-0335 122.Mayor's RequestRequesting approval to appropriate $2,300,000 from the Open Space and Acquisition Stabilization Fund to purchase the parcel at 508-512 Columbia Street.Recommended to be approvedPass Action details Not available
24-0054 123.Mayor's RequestRequesting the appropriation of $35,000 from the Community Preservation Act (CPA) Fund Open Space Reserve to the Public Space & Urban Forestry Division for design of the Kennedy Schoolyard.Recommended to be approvedPass Action details Not available
24-0276 124.Mayor's RequestRequesting the appropriation of $10,000 from the Community Preservation Act (CPA) Fund Historic Preservation Reserve to the Somerville Museum for preservation of assets in the museum's collections.Recommended to be approvedPass Action details Not available
24-0274 125.Mayor's RequestRequesting approval to accept and expend a $1,873,000 grant with no new match required, from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to the Office of Strategic Planning & Community Development Housing Division for replacing windows in the Mystic River and Mystic View housing developments.Recommended to be approvedPass Action details Not available
24-0319 126.Mayor's RequestRequesting approval to accept and expend a $375,224 Parkland Acquisitions and Renovations for Communities (PARC) grant with no new match required, from MA Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) to the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development Public Space and Urban Forestry Division for renovation and construction of Henry Hansen Park.Recommended to be approvedPass Action details Not available
24-0414 127.Mayor's RequestRequesting approval to accept and expend a $76,867 grant with no new match required, from the Massachusetts Office of Elder Affairs to the Council on Aging for social, educational and physical wellness programming.Recommended to be approvedPass Action details Not available
24-0320 128.Mayor's RequestRequesting approval to accept and expend a $131,920 grant from the Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program to the Office of Sustainability and Environment to partially fund the Argenziano LED conversion project.Recommended to be approvedPass Action details Not available
24-0334 129.Mayor's RequestRequesting approval to accept and expend a $79,500 grant with no new match required, from SFY2024 Massachusetts Municipal Public Safety Staffing Program to the Police Department for overtime to provide adequate shift coverage.Recommended to be approvedPass Action details Not available
24-0333 130.Mayor's RequestRequesting approval to accept and expend a $24,150 grant that requires a match, from the Metropolitan Mayors Coalition Community Safety Initiative to the Police Department for youth violence prevention..Recommended to be not approvedFail Action details Not available
24-0332 131.Mayor's RequestRequesting approval of a transfer of $8,050 from the Police Department Personal Services Overtime Account to the Police Department Special Items Grant Match Account to fund the Metropolitan Mayors Coalition Community Safety Initiative Shannon Grant match.Recommended to be not approvedFail Action details Not available
24-0337 132.OrderThat the Director of Water and Sewer and the Director of Procurement and Contracting Services update this Council on the bidding process for IFB 24-39 (Repairs to Water Main Gate Valves and Appurtenance) and IFB 24-29 (Water Distribution System Maintenance & Repairs) and ensure documentation is updated on the city's website for these bids and the previous versions of these bids (IFB 21-51 and IFB 21-52) when they were previously awarded in 2021.Kept in committee  Action details Not available
24-0369 133.OrderThat the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Director update this Council on plans to allocate funds to implement a medical debt cancellation program.Recommended to be marked work completed  Action details Not available
24-0326 134.ResolutionThat the Administration provide a written update to this Council on the status of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) spending to date.Recommended to be marked work completed  Action details Not available